Public Sector: The Public Sector Week

The UK Border Agency has appointed Debbie Porter as deputy director of
communications. Until last week she was head of policy communications at
the Department for International Development.

South Bristol Primary Care Trust is launching a six-week campaign next
January to help local residents stop smoking. The campaign will involve
six face-to-face brand ambassadors in different locations in Bristol
approaching smokers and talking to them about the services available.
The ambassadors will be aiming to sign up ten people per day to the
scheme.

NHS County Durham has appointed a new head of communications and PR.
Mary Bewley joins from her role as head of communications and marketing
for Impact, which oversees Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland
and Stockton-on-Tees primary care trusts, all in Teesside. Bewley's new
role includes a remit to build brand recognition as the local leader of
the NHS, to manage relationships with healthcare providers, and to lead
social marketing approaches in health prevention.

Brighton & Hove City Council has run a series of online 'teaser ads' on
YouTube to promote the city's first-ever all night cultural festival on
25 October, which attracted more than 15,000 people. In the space of a
week the online ad generated over 3,400 viewers, of which 2,800 went on
to the council's website.

Amanda Nelson, a Cheshire County Council press officer, has died after a
short and sudden illness. She worked as launch editor of in-house
magazine Our Cheshire and Your Cheshire. Nelson was previously a press
officer for Merseyside Police, and senior reporter at the Cheshire
Chronicle.